Talk Is Jericho Baby Talk Is Jericho Talk Is Jericho Mama Talk Is Me Alright, welcome to Talk Is Jericho It is the pod of Thunder and Rock and Roll and it's Friday So let's get to the weekend and get started with the Duff Macaegan joke of the week Hey Chris Jericho, it's Jeff Macaegan called you, hopefully we're all good, you know my wife's pregnant legally because of my obsession with the monkeys, I thought she was joking and then I saw her, great. Thank you very much, goodbye.
And then I saw her face, here we go, it's an Ipsofocto, Guns and Roses, Slash, Velvet Revolver, reunion as Slash is here today, but first his compatriot, his partner, delivering the goods with the joke of the week as always.
Thanks to Duff Macaegan, we're raising a glass to him tonight, he's going out with Slash and Guns and Roses next month, they're going to the Philippines, Jakarta, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and for the first time ever, they're going to Honolulu, Hawaii, tickets are on sale for that right now, Guns and Roses still leaving large and speaking of G&R Slash, the architect behind the band is back here on Talk Is Jericho.
He took some time out of rehearsals with Miles Kennedy and the conspirators to give us a call and talk about his new album, Live in the Dream, with Miles Kennedy and the conspirators.
All of it got started this week, the album was released a few weeks ago, the tour is on right now, Brent Fitz and Todd Kerns of course, Talk Is Jericho, alumni is there, the Canadian contingent, we've done Canadian music and Canadian television shows, so very, very cool, we're going to talk about them upcoming Live in the Dream, talk about the making of that, of course it's available now on all streaming and download platforms.
We talk about Guns and Roses, the reunion, what it's been like, what the future may hold for the band, whether they're going to play more music, more concerts, Slash is not ruling anything out, you hear exactly what he has to say about possible new guns music, more tour dates, talking about playing with Carol King,
talking about playing with Michael Jackson, talking about dinosaurs of course, you can't have Jericho and Slashy in a room and not talk about dinosaurs, we are amateur paleontologists, but we are professional podcasters and rock and rollers. No more of the appin, we're going to get right to a serious rock and roll hall of fame or the legendary Slash returns to talk is Jericho, episode 499, let's get started right now.
Thank you, Darian M. I'm Will and Will and you. Good dude, good. Just jump right in here, I know you're doing a lot of press, but it's cool that you're back with the Canadians man. I lost the interview, I was told it was right after I got it, I got it done with you.
Well that's cool man, I know that you were saying before like a couple of years ago that you had so much fun with those guys, it was like one of the one of your favorite bands to be in because the Canadians had the lack of ego that a lot of other bands do that you played within the past. Well you know the Canadians being Todd and Brett, they're so laid back, they're so easygoing and you know, they're like they're just overly sort of considerate and conscious of other people.
It's just different for me. But yeah, there are many new players and I don't know if you can play, but I don't know if you can play, but I'm not really conscious about how they play and coming up with their parts and just generally doing a great job. So it's probably been one of the easiest kind of working situations that I've been in.
Yeah, it's interesting though because I was talking to Todd like last year about some stuff that I wanted to do this year and he was saying well I've got slash commitments you know from September or whatever it was. So you always had this planned to go back with the conspirators and with miles even when you were in the midst of this massive stadium guns and roses tour. Well, I mean, what happened was when I found on the building thing which was for like an awesome thing to itself.
But I knew then that I still at some point was going to come back and do a conspirators. I didn't know how long the guns and roses tour was going to go. So I remember when I was doing it, we just sort of got into those first two shows and then we did a US tour and it just snowballed. But at some point, it was going to be a break. So I was just always in the back of my mind.
So I was 100% focused on guns but also we were building a reasonable size break that granted much time to be able to go in and we're here soon. So basically start writing and rehearsing and pre-production and what we call and then getting the studio record out. So that came in December of 2018. So I had from then until May to do it.
So you know, we're everybody that the Christmas break and then that mid-Jan and I got together starting with Brent and Todd just to sort of reveal some words that we had from 2015. Which was at the end of the real entire tour and we had accumulated some material. And then also I wrote a Christmas I wrote some new stuff so we got into that. And Frank came in and did some of his first record as a recording member of the contenders.
So we sort of went to all the two again for him and let him write his parts together. And then while Miles came in and we started pre-production and our own and then all of us came and we just went in and recorded the album. So I went pretty quickly by the time I was last year I was in rehearsals with Kevin Drew, who got on the European line.
It's interesting. So it's cool that you're letting that Frank is actually playing parts on this record because when you're thinking about a slash record, you must really trust him and really know him now to allow him to contribute. Because I'm assuming most of the time you would just play everything yourself and just kind of show him how it goes for the live stuff. Right. Yeah. I mean, I do know Joseph plays the second, you know, the guitar is a sensitive subject in a band like this.
Right? Right? You know, it's got to be compatible with what it is that I do and all that. And so just working with Frank or the whole live on track to a really sort of a record, musically, by the time you can't do this record, I totally felt that it was time for him to come in and start doing the guitars. But you know, he did such an amazing job. I was so, you know, I hate to sound like condescending. But I was so proud of him. You know, he did such a good job. And he worked quickly.
You know, I didn't know. Some people are slow in the studio. Just, you know, like take after take or whatever it is because they're not used to it or whatever. And he's not somebody to stand a million records, but he just came in and banged it out. It was great. Well, I'm talking about a lot of pressure for him too. And you got slashed over your shoulder, making sure you don't go up, right? No, no, I just let him do his thing.
I remember I did cry out in the body space for a more doing their parts. You know, I come in at the end of the night and check to see what things sound like. But then it's really cool to me because like I said, like I will talk a little bit with the guns thing when you mentioned you didn't really know how long it was going to go. What it was going to entail.
But I mean, you guys are still have shows coming up, I think, like in, I don't know, the Philippines or Beirut or whatever you're going. But then you're going straight out again with the conspirators. It's like you just never stop, man. You just you just on the road from one band to another constantly. But fortunately for me, I mean, I actually like that. I like working like that. And I like being, you know, I mean, it's the best way to put it.
I just like being in a situation where I'm jamming all the time. And if I'm going from one project to another project that's trying with me as long as I just, you know, I'm playing. And obviously this is one of the guns that we just did was probably one of the most positive experiences that I had with my professional hermit. Even over when the band first started. So, you know, it's something that I want to continue doing and you know that you do that.
I'd be able to have to be able to facilitate that. And I want to keep doing the conspirators. So we just have to make a good work. And it's it's taxing time to make, but it's cool, you know, it's worth it. Is it fun? Is it challenging to play with one group of musicians for the last two years? And then go straight into playing with another group? Is there is there differences that are is it kind of keep you sharp as a player to kind of have a hold?
It definitely keeps you sharp because you really can't just be clear. There's no excuses that you can make. You can walk in the room and you can't handle it. So you definitely keep you sharp. I mean, the cool thing about, you know, I think that the conspirators and the music and you guys that is a little bit. But this, you know, the guns and roses, I'm not going to be doing this last couple of years with is the same kind of thing.
It's sort of amazing because you know, that's a history. But suddenly, it's just really, really well old machine. That's like super functional. So, you know, the one thing you don't have to worry about is not, it feels like if I'm walking with a room, we need a band and you can't just work. Everybody's been ready to go. So that's a blessing because when it's disorganized or you know, everybody's sort of together.
And it makes it impossible to do this much work, you know, because they're adding up. So, I don't have that issue to deal with. It's just cool. You don't have to deal with it with me. You know, it's interesting when I think about like some of the kind of the bad blood that I had over the years with different guys in my job. And now, you know, here we are 20 years later and sit down and go like, why were we so f***ing mad at each other?
Anyways, like, you don't even really remember why you had a problem in the first place. And you mentioned for you guys with Guns and Roses how it's just been one of the most positive experiences. Was it the same type of vibe like once you guys actually sat down and had a chat? And why were we so mad at each other for so long?
I don't think there was, there was definitely something around to cover as to some of the, you know, catalysts, for causing, you know, and you know, a lot of it was not really between he and I. We had to do it outside parties. As a part of Beyond Drive service, and that explained a lot. But then there was different things between him and I that, you know, we need to just talk about because of how we handle those outside sort of influences.
So, yeah, I mean, it's not all very personal and it's not that it was just good that we finally did talk because I mean, sh** man, it was 20 years that we did not say one word to be said. And that's what I mean. And it's kind of like, what were we, like, okay, fine, but now 20 years later, it's almost like the police when they were united, you know? You're talking about two of the stubbornness people you could ever come across.
Well, I'll say this though, when you guys finally did get up and rolling, was it bigger than you expected? Were you thinking it was going to go this long and have this much of a buzz? Well, I think that was part of the idea of it. I didn't have any expectations. I think there was no, there was no possible thing for me to go in and just be in the room with, you know, with ask some questions. And actually just play. You know what I mean? And so that was in and of itself the coolest thing about it.
And so there's a desire to go and do those couple shows in the kitchen room, I'm sure. That was just going to be a blast. It wasn't really about how big the response was going to be or how well it was. I don't think we were thinking about that. It was just from the growth and get together and play. And then all of a sudden the response became something that we had, you know, at least for me personally. I had no idea. And that was throughout the whole tour. So it was pretty special.
Let's talk quickly about that first game that you guys played at the Tribune on. What was that like to get back on stage? You played with stuff obviously and thought revolver. But to get back up there with Duff Axel and Slash, were you nervous or was it just business usual felt like nothing had changed? No, I mean it was definitely not like, you know, like a game of life. It was definitely like a major kind of event going down there.
And I think it really sort of presented itself as far as like how surreal the whole thing was with a soundtrack. Because you sort of pull up to the Tribune or reminiscent of you know, you can show it to Tribune or the back of the ladies and pulling up. And it's the same place that hasn't changed much since I was a little kid. I used to go there with my parents. So I was like, you know, so you get there and then it comes and goes to the gig.
And we haven't played there in that capacity since 1985. So you know, that sort of sunkened with a little bit of a trip. And then I also realized that this has definitely gone to Moses of 2000. We've been here for a year and here then to come possibly really handle. But you know, that's how it sort of started off. But then when it came to actually being on stage, I think there's a certain kind of gear that you go into.
That's not really thinking about any of that stuff. And you're just on stage and you're playing it's about your audience. That's immediately trying to do it. You know, you go to a different place. What gigs did you see with your parents at the Tribune? Do you remember? Well, in 1971, when I was in, you know, 1971, when I was in, my mom did a lot of, we were both my parents. We were a lot of artists that performed with the Tribune.
So there was Jody E. Troll, Helen Ready, with the Grants, that William, there was a bunch of different people that, I mean, the Tribune there at that time was sort of like the Renaissance Corps, that was where, Carol Key and James came in. So that's where, like, that was probably the most prestigious Corps in Hawaii because of it's where all the senior songwriters that were making really big waves with hit records.
At that time, that's where they were all playing. And so, they sort of kind of, I was like, you were seeing down there. Didn't you, as a matter of fact, you did, you played, you played on a record with Carol King, like a live record of hers or something, right? It was a studio record. And I'm not exactly sure. I think it was, I don't know if it was, I can remember, it was like 1998 or something around there. And it was really cool because I bought it because you were on it. It was really cool.
I think it was called, to hold on to Robert something. And it was great because she, you know, gave me a great songwriter that she is. She took me in and she, she, you know, gave me a lot of compliments about how I sort of worked with her in the structure of someone on the belt. And at the same time, she was also getting the advice on how to work with this particular song in terms of how her vocal parts were in all this culture.
So, exactly when it goes great experiences that you remember for the rest of your career. But then I went on a show where the jazz festival, which was a couple shows actually, I think it was really cool. And I was like, dude, this is it. It's called Carol King in concert. I just googled it right now. And you played with her on that record. That's the one that I have.
I think it's maybe make the earth move or something along those lines. You're just, it's like you're bringing the, the, the sounds of Carol King to a whole new generation. Yeah, well, I don't know about all that. And it was definitely a personal benchmark. I think, you know, well, you always played with a lot of different people, like, you know, with Michael Jackson and all those different, Lenny Kravitz.
It was, it was your favorite collaboration. I mean, it might be harder on fair to ask your favorite. But is there one that stands out for you that was really, really extra cool? I mean, you know, I've been asked that before. And it's like, there's always something to, you know, to begin from any of them. They're all fun and they're all different.
And I do it because as a musician, but also as a huge fan, you know, like I'm a fan of people I would admire them and people who I respect in the industry. And, you know, I try to keep it cool and I'm in the presence, but you know, I'm really just, you know, only excited to try. And I'm really, I'm honored to do it. So we're all really, you know, great experience.
So I have to say that in you pop is, is by said, wow, I worked with him so much. And he used just, he was just such a great rock and roll icon who has a very, very unique, identifiable, you know, like, his talent or something. They're having a conversation, but he just looks within a certain something that really appeals to who I am as sort of rock guy. And I love his fond lady. I love to lay his mind worse and his lips and all kind of shit, you know, like that.
You know, I mean, he just represents a kind of lamb, lamb power in your face rock and roll that is uniquely him and I was heavily influenced by it. So does a guy like that or you know, you and I have talked about Keith Richards quite a bit in the stones like does it give you, I mean, it gives all of us inspiration to see them still up there kicking ass and still looking cool and all that stuff.
Because there's really no rules now as to when you have to stop playing music like if we worked in a factory or something where you got to retire at 65 years old or whatever it may be. Yeah, well, I mean, I hope you can anybody, even if you go back to somebody like, I'm using a tissue. Yeah, up to five, he said he started, you know, up to his death. And, and, uh, Jane and we said all these guys who influenced our influences, they, you know, like, you know, they have a very soft.
So only people about only start to really look at it a perspective of age or kids. You know, because any kid who is, if we weren't like between 13 and 21 looks at anybody who's 30 or older than, you know, I remember being like that. I've never been 16 and 10, you know, I'm different than the 23 with all. Right. So, you know, so there's that.
When it comes down to it, there are a lot of people who do not let it in if they do music. I mean, it doesn't work with sports, but music, you know, they just go, they do it as long as they feel passionate about it. And that's pretty much, if anything is pretty much all we do, you know, you feel passionate about it, then to a little bit of ticker stops ticking.
Right. Yeah, until you don't. I was going to ask you when you got back together with Axel and Duff, how did you guys decide kind of the rest of the band? You know, with Richard Fordist and Frank and all those guys, because one thing that people forget about when you're talking about, we want the classic lineup of Guns and Roses, blah, blah, blah. Axel has been playing with those guys for 10 odd years. So I thought it would be very strange for him to just fire all those guys too, you know.
Yeah, well that's obviously a bigger, you know, that's sort of a bigger subject considering all the different things that went on and turned up here trying to sort of figure about that out. You know, all things considered, yeah, you're right. I mean, when certain things, I mean, when a certain client gets certain out, didn't work out, Axel and had been working with really for 15 years. And so, yeah, I felt really comfortable with Richard and Frank was great.
And so, it wasn't really takes a lot of science to keep all that together. And just the other stuff that we were trying to do didn't work out. So, yeah, I'm not going to get into all that though. Yeah, no, no, I wasn't suggesting, because I said it was a great band because to me it's almost like we mentioned the Stones. When you go to the Stones, you know, it's Mick Keith, Charlie and Ron on the poster. But there's seven other guys in the band and girls and backup singers and horns.
And I kind of felt that with Guns and Roses, you know, you had the core guys. But then you had all these amazing musicians that made just the sound that much fuller and better. It was actually pretty cool to see. Yeah, I mean, you know, you do, it's something that you do even like me to be done. And also, like, even from the 90s, we didn't have the original lineup. Yeah, you know, so that's very life-and-per-changing that we were like, oh my God, you know, about.
How was it playing with Richard? Did you guys have musical chemistry fairly quickly? Richard's great. Richard, you know, I mean, I don't know all the guys that played guitar with Guns, prior, you know, to my current back. I've never met it. Well, it's a good description of mine. I haven't met any of them. And so Richard was the first one. He was there when I was, you know, rehearsal. And it just, we hear him off automatically. He's got, you know, these guys, he's amazing technician.
He's very, very knowledgeable about guitar techniques and guitar, all kinds of shit. But he has, he's rooted in, you know, the same kind of rock guitar and some kind of influences that I am. So we slept the same language. So, you know, all in all, working with Richard was really sort of a boom for me because I was doing my thing. He was doing on his side, like, you know, covering it all and also sort of pushing me as a guitar player at the same time and stuff.
And it was definitely one of those beneficial relationships that was established for me earlier. It was a cool mix too because you got your slimy, slithery style. And like you said, he's a little bit more technical with the sweeps and that sort of a thing if he needs to be. So it was a cool kind of mix between you guys.
Yeah, yeah. So it worked out well. I mean, it's almost like it moves in like a, especially a pretty sort of like meant to be kind of thing because we're going to be in somebody else and might not have worked or, you know, whatever. But it just happened to work perfectly from the moment I locked in. Yeah. How was it for you when, because you guys were already back together when Axel got the gig singing for ACDC?
How did, how did you guys feel about that and what did you think about that whole line of ACDC? I mean, I, you know, that was all about, you know, it was like right before you even, you know, really started. So I think it was, it was, when was kind of, what do you do? You know, you know, you're about even growing up where it just got asked to do probably the coolest pruning, you know, rock and roll gear you could possibly ask for.
And he wouldn't pull it off. I definitely could have to lend him for one of the shows. Oh, right on. I mean, I didn't know how that was going to go. Yeah. I mean, I know how bad Axel is, but I just, you know, ACDC, ACDC. So I just didn't know. So we went out there and went to this big Olympics stadium where it's called there. And it was just awesome. And especially like the bomb-shot stuff, there was really, really good.
And so yeah, and then he came back and he just went to jump right back into rehearsal with us and all for you. Did he learn some stuff from working with Angus that kind of, that you saw a little bit of a difference in Axel? I was sure it's a good, but I just, you know, there's nothing we actually sat down and described in them. And I've known Angus for pretty long time, so I know how Angus works.
So I know that Axel has definitely adapted to that situation because the ACDC sort of machine works a certain way. But remember any kind of issues, and if I got someone who was just holding it into it and then just did the thing. So I was cool.
Yeah, it was cool. And I thought, like you said, like, you know, I thought Brian Johnson sang the Bond songs because it was part of his gig, whereas Axel has that bond element to him, you know, he's like, he embodies the spirit of Bond Scott during those tunes, you know what I mean? Yeah, so it was cool. And I was noticing too. So I was definitely going to play it on time.
Because when you guys did your tour or two, you guys were always on time. I think you went on a minute early, both times I saw you, which was not the same as the Guns and Roses of Old. You know, like we don't even discuss like any of that because we just, we worked out and we did a piece. I mean, I have to say two years, two years on the road on this tour and not let pitch the entire time.
Yeah, we're making that was insurmountable, you know, dude. That's, that's awesome. And when you think about that, like you mentioned, like it took 25 years or whatever, but it's kind of it was something that not just for you guys, but all fans of Rock and Roll in general were so happy to see that and to see like how much fun you guys are having. Like it really rubbed off and it was great. It was great for the state of Rock and Roll overall, I'd say.
I don't really put it in that kind of perspective. Yeah, no, it's definitely had a good time. So, you know, when I've seen other situations, similar situations. And it's, you know, oftentimes not as harmonious. So, you know, it's sort of like a blessing. I've said this before, sort of blessing that it worked out the way that it did. But, you know, I'm glad that it actually happened because you know, you've done a long time and there's never one so I ever knew to get even being a possible.
I remember when we talked and I just said, man, the chance that you guys could go back and play stadiums were only a handful of bands can do that as a musician is something I bet you always in the back your mind you think about.
And whatever the reason was you guys did it and it was amazing. So, very, very cool to see. I want to ask you a couple questions as we wind down here about our favorite subject other than Rock and Roll, which of course is paleontology and dinosaurs and that sort of thing. Lots of stuff going on right now in the world of new species being discovered and new countries that have found all of these new fossils and then we'll just kind of get in your updates on what you've been reading about lately.
There's a lot of stuff. I mean, I went to a time when I was in and checked out the motor story that is on display all the way. But one of that's like perfectly preserved and one of that, which is pretty awesome to see. Yeah, there's a lot of ways. There's so much that happened on a almost daily basis now. It's hard to even keep up with. They just found a new pheropod. It's a totally new species of pheropod. I think it was in China.
Or it's a time machine coming out of China. But this one's a decent size pheropod for that one that's called. But there's a lot of stuff. I can't even remember the names of everything because they come out so often. And that's a reason the simple fact that they've made the names or a more competitive than the group. I know right. I was reading a couple of times.
I was getting intentional. I wrote the information about the data just so you can't pronounce them because there's that cat. Have you been if you followed the Stephen Brusat the stuff that he's been doing? He's a cat from like Illinois. And he's like a disciple of what is last name is, but he's been finding all these new species. He's kind of like the hot shot now because he says that the biggest thing is that all of these new countries are opening up.
For example, like Mongolia and China and places where they wouldn't really allow you know North American paleontologists to go into. So he's fine. Yeah, I think he's found like 10 or 12. He's in there with with Paul Paul Serrano and those guys. This is the guy that just I'm not talking about this guy who actually just discovered something just to reach it up where I tell them you asked though. But I know you're talking about it. Yeah, it's true.
Like all the borders have opened up to let scientists come in and sort of escalate pretty much in all places where it was, you know, almost not so impossible to get into. So it's a really crazy time for I mean the discovery. So like I said, I literally you know there's something every other week is not every week which is so amazing. You know after all these years of studying. I guess that's just because of the new countries that are opening up or is there new techniques and finding them.
I mean, as time goes by, you know, erosion has this and the more amount of ground that they've recovered because of all the new territories obviously going to find stuff but there's just there's a constant sense of religion. So there's just I mean if you think about it, the amount of species, not too much of those amount of species that want to think about all the amount of living animals that were on this planet that no longer existed.
You can alter the relation happens, not everything is preserved. But really find a lot of stuff that is underneath layers and layers of rock that's being exposed. So yeah, it's just going to keep happening.
Yeah, it's like you said to me, because I think to also to like you're talking about China is now there's a lot of Chinese paleontologists coming up through the ranks that didn't really exist. I think China kind of frowned upon that thing because I know that they found the. Did you with the Pinocchio Rex? Yes, yeah, like a different type of T Rex from Chinese.
It's just kind of really wrong. Right, but it's a different species of T Rex though. A different species. Yeah, it's probably a family of different species. So, but I think the thing about China is that it's definitely one territory that has turned out the most fertile kind of sort of, you know, out of any from anywhere else. I think that China basically has the biggest rise of some of these species on the planet in the last 20, last 23 years. So if you know for a guy like us, it's just like.
Well, and that's nothing that that Brusette found found the the the York Vara. It's not spelled like that is spelled like D E R CM H A R A, but it's pronounced the Scottish like Galic term of Yark Vara something like that. It's a giant marine lizard.
You found one of those the Scotland's like you said. Yeah, it's woohoo because of all of this shit that's really. It's really cool. I need to go around to a little bit of traveling on a gold all the different museums just to see all this new stuff on this story next to the
look stuff that's been there for decades. It's cool to see such a sort of like electricity to all this new stuff that's turning up and you know, I'm on all the books that they're trying to get artists wondering to do sort of like, you know, the
imagination version of what you found look like and it's just fun. Do you do a lot of that when you're on tour like trying to go to many museums museums as you can? Yeah, I mean, I really know when I'm on the road, there's I don't really do much. I like, you know, I play like a basketball, I don't know.
I don't really hang out with anything, but I do go to natural history museums and you know, a few very specific times from museums around. I haven't been to all of them. I haven't been to museum in China which I'm kind of doing. There's a really great, it's a logical sort of destination in Argentina that is outside of, it's a few miles outside of where they normally stay when we're in
museums. So it's always been too hard to get to get back and trying to do a show. So I'm still looking to get out there and then also heard about the fire, the natural history museum. No, what happened with the oldest museum? It just I guess because the maintenance, whatever it just caught on fire. So this is one of the oldest, it's not only the oldest museum in the country, but it's one of the older museums in the world with very unique
specimens to that control early humanoid and everything and all kinds of stuff. And so it's the only happened like last week. So I haven't heard what the total damage of the fire was, but a lot of people learning about the potential loss of really significant stuff that lots of pieces. Yeah, because that's a big area too when you think about it. I hadn't heard about that.
Favorite dinosaur? I think it's scared of my mom because you know, it changes from time to time. I was I was really with a smile. So until I became I'm hip to be into it. You are dinosaur nerd. Last couple of things. Are you doing anything with your with your production company still? Yeah, I'm working the way I had a time of tangency, but everything else. I'm a judge on four different movie projects, but I did close to deals. So those two Lisa, you know, green,
and I've been working on my cartoon for a lot of time and that picked up. So at some point in the next couple years, I should become an outsider. Yeah, it's been very busy, but I'm very quiet about other shit because until it's out there, you don't know if it's going to succeed.
And just getting things complete with this business is something, you know, in the accomplishment, more difficult than anything I've done so far. So I just keep quiet about it until there's a release day. There's so much to it, dude. Like, you know, first you get picked up and then you got to get a finance and then you get it made, then you got to distribute it and everything.
Yeah, yeah, it's just so many people involved and blah blah blah. And it's just slow. It's a very slow. And so the first check gets cut and moves. That's the line thing. If you're letting that check cut question. Is the cartoon with that cat in Toronto that we met is the same mat. Is that his name together? You know, Toronto? It's not with anybody from Toronto. I can't really say just yet. No, I was working with a guy from Toronto on a movie. Gotcha. I'm not working with him.
Okay, well, forget about him. Then last two questions for you, man. What was your favorite guns and roses song to play that you hadn't played in years that was funded to get back into again when you did it when you went out on this tour? That's a good question. I know strange for sure was on there. Yeah, because I always like flying out that song. And then, you know, like welcome to general was blast to play.
I mean, just because it was such a major part of the set, it was in the early part of the set. So we got things going really, you know, that was a lot of fun to play. I mean, I can sit there and I can give you highlights and I start going down the set list. It's a longer, it's a longer comment. There was no one song that I was like, oh, this is this is a chemical of my night. Because every, well, there's so much material on it. It was a replay like three and a half hours.
Oh, man. It was. You know, so there was a lot of different material and a lot of cool things to play. All throughout the set. I thought it was really cool that you guys bust out some of those Chinese democracy tunes. Yeah, it was, you know, it's really playing the songs and then, you know, like, you know, like, you know, like, you know, to put you into something to make it your own.
And it just, it was a lot of fun to do. They really came alive with you guys behind them. And I thought, you know, especially Chinese democracy, the song itself almost sounded like one of your tunes when you got a hold of it. Yeah, I would use the song themselves are actually really, really cool. And so we just, you know, sort of narrow down to two guitars, bass and drums, just jam in those parts out.
They really sort of have a bigger, bigger, bigger brass and red on. So, you know, but they really just sound super good. And so it was a big thing. Was that an axle suggestion? Or did you guys come up by committee? Or did you suggest that or do you even remember? I work on it. We were sort of like, you know, one of the things where like, like, Chinese democracy obviously was a song that, as you guys know, some of the other played on the guitar.
And so it just started to look at that. Like, we've found that record, which songs are this record, which songs are this record, which songs are this record. And so Chinese democracy was just like, it was any of the other records. Right, right, right. Well, it's very cool, man. I know you got to go rehearse with the Winnipeg boys and with Miles and everybody. You're going to be out for a long time. I know Duff is back with loaded an axle may or may not be doing ACDC.
Will you guys reconvene with Guns and Roses a year down the line and do some more work together? I mean, you know, I'll just consider that we're going to have to have a million times. There's no set answer for that. I know that we're going to do something at some point in the not too distant future. But we haven't sat down and done it yet. Anything like that. So it's definitely something that we're all one dude. So we're across that bridge when we get there.
For sure, but it's cool to like with with the conspirators. I just saw your European tour. You guys are playing big rooms with that band too. Like there it's an arena level type venue. Some of it. Yeah. It's sort of a mixed bag like we're playing from clubs to a Reno's to festivals. Yeah. But it translates in a festival setting or like a man or we're playing it. It's a arena over there that's like a full size arena and managed to pull that off. So it's it's you know, it's good.
It's cool. I like the variation on things because you just like to play. It doesn't matter. Yeah. Yeah. I was just thinking even that club up in Aspen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which is probably the smile. Didn't you in the circuit right? Right. That is. I'm playing in some of the room. And that's it kind of takes you back to you know, it's like a punk rock. Take you back to your roots playing the high school party type of a gig.
It's fun when you come off stage like covered in sweat. You're like moving over to the back and front of the gun at the top of your lungs while your band is playing. It's playing the time going. Dude, you're on my foot. When you get when you get your haircut and someone else is tuning pegs and all that sort of shit. You're going to become one with the audience. All right. Well, I do. I will be in touch with you as we go. And I'm sure I'll see you at something.
Great talking to you, man. And go try and learn a triumph cover today. I think you should do that. I don't go to talk to you soon. All right, dude. Thanks. Lashy. Talk to you soon, buddy. Cheers. All right. Thanks to slash for coming back again. Such a great guest. Live in the dream. It's the new album from slash featuring Miles Kennedy and the conspirators. It's out now. And the guys are on the road. The tour started this week.
They've been playing for a while. They playing the aftershock festival in Sacramento on Sunday and a couple days. And a big hometown gig at the palladium in Hollywood next Tuesday, the 16th. That's a big room. All dates and ticket information at slash online.com. That slash online.com. Go see slash featuring Miles Kennedy, the conspirators with Brent Fitz and Todd Kerr.
He's appointed great rock and roll band with a great rock and roll show. I got a warning that they don't play a lot of guns and roses. Tunes. They've got too many great songs of their own. And of course, slash always on the hunt for new dinosaur fossils and exhibits. So if you have any, you hit them up on the Twitter at slash and let them know where you can go for his paleontology needs. All right.
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Like I said, our second set is going to be all covers. Cory Taylor of Slipknot Stone Sower doing a two hour acoustic set, Phil Campbell in the bastard sons, King the stir. We just tour with them and we tour with King as well, both great bands.
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So there's a lot of cool stuff going on there. Marty Derosa will be doing some stand up cult, cabana will be there. They're doing their unprofessional wrestling podcast and stand up. And of course live comedy from Brad Williams Craig gas. Sal and cue from the practical jokers so much stuff going on. It's going to be amazing. And also we have a huge huge announcement about Chris Jericho's rock and resting rager at sea tomorrow.
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Episode 500 coming up this Wednesday. I can't believe we're 500 episodes in and one of my favorite guests and one of my favorite people. He's also a rock and roll hall of favor. Who gives you the rock and roll hall of favor? Slash today episode 499 and episode 500 possibly my favorite rock star of all time. One of my favorite people on the planet. I'm going to wait. I'm going to announce it later on this week. Maybe this weekend.
So 500 you are not going to want to miss it. It's huge. Thank you so much for listening to all 499 or one of them or anything in between. I do this for you guys. I appreciate you. We will see you for episode 500 of Wednesday until then. Stay hard. Stay hungry. Peace. Love hugs and a big cheer boy.